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Please join us for a discussion of a new book about Portsmouth, NH. A Church Built of Granite: Four Centuries of Faith, Conscience, and Community in a New Hampshire Seaport
explores "how theology, geography, politics, and personality shaped a New England congregation and the town around it," according to its publisher.
Janet Polasky, a prize-winning author and UNH history professor emerita, wrote the book to mark the 200th anniversary of South Church, a city landmark.
The discussion and book signing are open to the public. Signed books will be available for purchase.
Anchored in the heart of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, A Church Built of Granite traces four centuries of faith, questioning, and community through the evolving life of South Church. It begins with a rough wooden meeting house raised by seventeenth-century English fishermen on contested Indigenous land and culminates in the solid granite church completed in 1826, where worshipers and change-seekers still gather today.
Drawing on deep and thoughtful research, the history reveals how theology, geography, politics, and personality shaped a New England congregation and the town around it. Along the way, it explores shifting ideas of land ownership, religious authority, slavery, and conscience, showing how Anglicans, Puritans, Congregationalists, Unitarians, Universalists, and Indigenous peoples all left enduring marks.
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292 State St, Portsmouth, NH, United States
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